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When it comes to protecting your plants from the elements, consider this humble, all organic fabric
If you live in one of the warmer climate zones here in the south and western United States, fall presents a different set of garden challenges than it does for our neighbors in cooler places. While they’re taking precautions against frost, we’re dealing with hot, sunny days that can reach into the upper 80s or low 90s and nights that will drop into the low 40s. Add in the frequent gusty desert winds and single digit humidity and you’ve got is a hot/cold whipsaw that takes its toll on even well-established plants.
Fortunately, keeping older plants healthy and help new ones get established before the cold and wet of winter shows in a few months is simple. All you need do is provide a little shade from the sun, shelter from the wind and mulch to keep moisture in the soil. Even better, you only need one thing to do all three — a roll of burlap fabric.
Like a lot of people, I used to use a variety of stuff — floating row cover, mulch, screen, shadehouses, etc. — with varying degrees of success. Then, a landscaper friend of mine introduced me to the magic of burlap.
The author and his beloved roll of burlap
What is Burlap?
Burlap is a coarse fabric woven from Jute, which is inexpensive, sustainable, biodegradable and very strong. According to the Dayton Burlap and Bag Company, one of its original uses was as the material for the uniforms worn by German mercenaries (aka: Hessians) during the Revolutionary War, which is why in many parts of Europe the fabric is still referred to as “hessian.” It was still in use in clothing up until the 1970’s when synthetic fabrics which were equally inexpensive and far more comfortable finally replaced it.
These days burlap is used for all kinds of stuff from rustic accent pillows to feed sacks, and, of course, landscaping where it does everything from carrying lawn clippings to controlling erosion.
Where to get Burlap
You can pick up rolls of burlap or smaller burlap “blankets” at just about any home and garden store as well as at big online stores like Amazon.com. (You can also get it at fabric and craft stores, but those varieties tend to be a bit tighter weave and may be dyed colors, which makes them less suitable for outdoor work.) It’s cheap. Less than 50 cents/yard for bulk rolls and about 60 cent/yard for 24 foot “blankets.” Generally it’s 36-inches wide, though you can get it in 48 and 60-inch widths as well.
Uses for Burlap in the garden
Beyond being super inexpensive, the other reasons I really like this fabric are versatility and durability. You can leave it exposed to the elements for months at a time, pick it up and re-use it over and over for all sorts of different purposes, which isn’t something that floating row cover, shade screen or plastic mulches can do. Here’s how I use it:
Shade cover
Burlap’s coarse weave and natural color makes it an ideal shade covering that knocks down somewhere between 50% and 80% of sunlight and heat radiation, making it particularly good at providing cover to plants that would otherwise get scorched in the hot, dry weather we have in late summer on into mid-fall. It’s heavier than floating row cover, so you’ll want to support it or cut it down into smaller strips to keep it from squashing your more delicate plants.
A burlap shade tent protecting parsley from scorching in midday sun
For vegetables like sweet peppers and tomatoes where the fruit is prone to sun scald, I like to use strips cut down to 18” x 36” and lay them directly over the fruit and plants I’m trying to protect. For more delicate plants, I’ll cut a 36” x 36” or 48” x 36” piece and drape it over poles made of cut PVC pipe and secured with fabric pins pushed through the burlap and onto the poles to make a shade “tent”.
Seed Protection
We’ve got all kinds of foraging birds and animals that love nothing more than treating a freshly seeded bed like a buffet. To discourage that, once the bed is planted, I cover it with burlap and secure the edges with landscape pins to keep the more enterprising rabbits and scrub jays from peeling it back to get at what’s underneath. Best part here is I can either put drip irrigation under the burlap or simply water over the burlap. Either way, most of the water goes directly into the soil, but the fabric also absorbs some itself providing a sort of insulating moisture blanket for the seeds underneath.
Burlap is great for protection seed beds and keeping soil moist
Best of all, if you’re planting fine seed like grass or many herbs, you don’t even have to remove the burlap once the seeds sprout. They’ll grow up through the gaps in the coarse weave of the fabric providing you a built-in weed barrier that you can leave in place forever (the burlap breaks down into the soil), or pull up once the plants in the bed are done.
Insulation and Mulch
Along with seed protection, burlap also makes a great soil blanket that provides insulation, water retention and weed barrier. You can put down a single layer of fabric for just a little cover, or double or triple layers to make a “blanket” of sorts. Water will still seep through the fabric and into the soil, but it won’t evaporate as quickly, and it’ll maintain soil temperature without baking the ground like plastic mulches can do. Better yet, you can use it in combination with compost and organic mulch. Spread your organic matter first, then lay the burlap over it to prevent birds, dogs and other critters from scattering your carefully laid compost.
So there it is. When it comes to plant protection options, along with floating row cover, screens, plastic mulch and compost, make sure that a roll of plain old burlap is in your garden shed. You’ll be pleasantly surprised how easy, versatile and effective it is.
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A FEARLESS™ Painting I created with the intention of exploring protection.
acrylic on watercolor paper
18" x 24"
Minister Lindiwe Zulu during the closing of Child Protection Week at Emalahleni Civic Centre in Mpumalanga Province. [Photo: GCIS]
Wildfire Structure Protection near Shan Creek Road on the Taylor Fire by the Eugene Springfield Fire Department. By removing excess brush and debris, crews may have a chance to decrease potential wildfire damage. Credit: Darren Stebbins 7-27-18
It was only after I'd studied this photo back at the computer that I realised that window grills had been fitted where there in fact no windows...
I wonder who Big Dog is?
The model is too old to be a Defender it is a 'One Ten'. They were named Defender in to avoid possible confusion with the new Discovery, so from 1991 the Ninety and the One Ten were renamed the Defender 90 and Defender 110.
Despite me being picky this is a well cared for example, by the looks of it recently resprayed in military green (complete with Union flag sticker like the British Army units).
Legislation introduced July 25, 2016 creates new measures to help make home ownership more affordable, establishes a fund for market housing and rental initiatives, strengthens consumer protection, and gives the City of Vancouver the tools it requested to increase rental property supply.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2016PREM0080-001346
A Kasbah offers protection to the villagers living below in the Mid Atlas mountains of Morocco.
Jon & Tina Reid | Travel Portfolio | Photography Blog | Travel Flickr Group
Recognising that hosting mega sport events may pose risks to children, UNICEF and Save the Dream collaborated to promote integrity, child protection, safety and security in sport. Our Ambassador Alessandro Del Piero visited Rio de Janeiro in the second year of the project.
The Data Protection Office contacted us when they wanted to produce this primary piece of communication for the youth sector. Our approach was to use striking illustration and strong graphic elements to appeal to the audience. The end result has been a huge success for them.
getting paranoid from dealing with the modal argument against physicalism (popularly (in philosophy) known as 'the zombie argument')
10 basic rules:
1. Organise before they rise.
2.They feel no fear, why should you?
3. Use your head: cut off theirs.
4. Blades don't need reloading.
5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair.
6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it.
7. Get out of the car, get onto your bike.
8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert!
9. No place is safe, only safer.
10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on.
As the next step in preventing the non-consensual sharing of intimate images, Niki Sharma, Attorney General, has issued a letter to technology companies advising them of the newly enacted Intimate Images Protection Act and their responsibilities under the law.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/28710
25.365 // Y3 // 23.03.2010
I can't change the way you feel,
But I could put my arms around you.
-- Everything But The Girl, "Protection".
Recognising that hosting mega sport events may pose risks to children, UNICEF and Save the Dream collaborated to promote integrity, child protection, safety and security in sport. Our Ambassador Alessandro Del Piero visited Rio de Janeiro in the second year of the project.
These little bottles were fun to make,thrown on the wheel then fired and glazed with antique style glazes, they are waterproof and food safe so they could be used for storing fragrant oils.
Witch protection bottles are used to ward off or break spells cast by witches. People who believe themselves to be hexed would fill one of these bottles with items such as their own hair, fingernails, blood and often urine as well as rusty nails and pins, broken glass, a piece of cloth cut into a heart shape. sometimes red wine and herbs are used and anything small and personal. Then the bottle is sealed with melted wax and a firmly fitted cork and either buried in the garden or placed somewhere where it would never be found. The idea was that while the bottle with its contents stayed intact the hex would be broken and no further spells could be cast upon them. Archaeologists have unearthed witch bottles still intact, hundeds of years old.
Some 17,000 people who fled to a UN protection of Civilians site in Wau following recent violence, have access to water, and are putting up basic structures to shield from the hot sun.
PHOTO: Nektarios Markogiannis/UNMISS April 20th, 2017
Field oil and DDT storage. Oregon/Washington/Idaho Douglas-fir tussock moth control project.
Photo by: Unknown
Date: 1974
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Source: Forest Health Protection slide collection; Regional Office, Portland, Oregon.
For more information about this project see:
Graham, D.A.; J. Mounts; D. Almas. 1975. 1974 Cooperative Douglas-fir tussock moth control project: Oregon, Washington, Idaho. Portland, OR: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region. 74 p.
Available through the Forest Health Protection Historical Digital Collection, here: nfsl.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p17053coll1/id...
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
This was one of my favorites from the anniversary pictures I took for my grandparents.
"You're still the one I run to, the one that I belong to. You're still the one I want for life." - Shania Twain
In Addis Ababa, JRS runs a Child Protection Centre (CPC) where unaccompanied children can find support, educational, and recreational activities.
Свято-Покровский Авраамиево-Городецкий монастырь. Собор в честь иконы Божией Матери "Умиление" и Собор Покрова Пресвятой Богородицы / Holy Protection Monastery Avraamievo-Gorodetsky. Cathedral of the Icon of the Mother of God "Tenderness" and Cathedral of the Intercession
село Ножкино, Костромская область, Россия / village Nozhkino, Kostroma region, Russia
Монастырь основан в XIV веке / The monastery was founded in the XIV century
Madeline Goddard believes mangrove protection should be very high on the agenda. (Image: ABC/Emilia Terzon)
Cagnes-sur-Mer. Capilla de Notre-Dame de Protection. Rue Hippolyte-Guís.
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En 1907, Pierre-Auguste Renoir compra una propiedad en Cagnes-sur-Mer, en la que hizo construir una casa-estudio "Les Collettes", (hoy Museo Renoir) en la que vivirá hasta su muerte en 1919.
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cagnes-sur-Mer
www.cagnessurmer.fr/culture/musees.php
Castillo-Museo Grimaldi:
www.musees-mediterranee.org/portail/musee_fiche.php?menu=...
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©AVucha 2013
McHenry Township Fire Protection District was called at 7:09pm for a possible structure fire at 533 N. Draper Rd. with fire reported in the silo near the feed room, and that the room is filled with hay. MTFPD pulled MABAS Box #5-1274 to the Box Level at 7:17pm for the Structure Fire.
- Engine(s): McHenry
- EMS(s): McHenry
- Chief(s): Woodstock, Crystal Lake RIT
- Special: Crystal Lake RIT
- Change of Quarters: Antioch Tanker, Cary EMS, Fox Lake Chief, Richmond Engine, Spring Grove Engine and Fox Lake EMS
2nd Alarm for Engines Only at 7:33pm
- McHenry Engine
- Fox River Grove Engine
- Algonquin Engine
- Lakewood Engine
By the authority of Command, MABAS Box #5-1274 was struck out at 8:56pm.
News article obtained from the Northwest Herald:
McHENRY – A barn about two-thirds full of hay on Draper Road caught fire Thursday night and was destroyed, according to the McHenry Township Fire Protection District.
Firefighters responded around 7:10 p.m. to Shamrock Beef Cattle Farm at 533 Draper Road and found flames and smoke coming out of the barn, according to a news release. More than 600 bales of hay were being stored inside the building.
The roof of the barn collapsed and made it unstable for entry, McHenry Township Fire Protection Chief Tony Huemann said. Preliminary reports indicate that the cause of the blaze was accidental.
The fire department also used equipment to move the hay bales away from the fire, Huemann said. To get water to the scene, firefighters had to extend lines to hydrants in the Legend Lakes subdivision across the street.
The fire was under control in about eight hours, the news release states.
Personnel from Crystal Lake, Wauconda, Woodstock, Fox Lake, Wonder Lake, Cary, Spring Grove, Richmond, Antioch, Algonquin-Lake in the Hills, Fox River Grove, Nunda Rural, Grayslake and the Illinois Emergency Management Agency responded to the scene.
No one was injured during the incident, and the structure itself sustained heavy damage with all the contents inside destroyed.
The fire is under investigation.
Getting ready for the Goodwood revival again! Treated myself to a new camera bag which arrived today so just a trip into town on Thursday for a new outfit & a few rolls of film :)